SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What new branch of Christianity resulted from Luther’s ideas and the 95 Theses?
A
Catholicism
B
Protestantism
C
Eastern Orthodox
D
Jesuits
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism, a name used collectively to refer to the many religious groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church due to differences in doctrine.

Detailed explanation-2: -His “95 Theses, ‘’ which propounded two central beliefs-that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds-was to spark the Protestant Reformation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Reformation was the start of Protestantism and the split of the Western Church into Protestantism and what is now the Roman Catholic Church.

Detailed explanation-4: -500 years later, churches in the Protestant tradition remember the people and movements that sparked renewal in both doctrine and piety. Four major groups emerged from this movement: Lutherans, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican.

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